{"id":19465,"date":"2026-03-05T10:23:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=19465"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:23:57","slug":"prepare-for-safer-sleep-week-9-15-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/prepare-for-safer-sleep-week-9-15-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare for Safer Sleep week (9-15 March)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safer Sleep Week 2026 will run from 9 &#8211; 15 March. This is our national awareness campaign targeting anyone looking after a young baby. We raise awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and the simple advice that reduces the risk of it occurring.<\/p>\n<h2>How to be a Safer Sleep Week champion with The Lullaby Trust:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Hold a Pyjama Day:\u202fRaise money to keep advice accessible to all\u00a0by hosting a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lullabytrust.org.uk\/events\/pyjama-day\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Pyjama Day\u00a0<\/a>in your local Early Years setting &#8211; everyone\u00a0donates\u00a0to come to nursery in their pyjamas!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lullabytrust.org.uk\/events\/pyjama-day\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up for your free access to our PJ Day hub packed with resources.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sign up for training:\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lullabytrust.org.uk\/professionals-hub\/training\/sids-and-safer-sleep-training\/for-early-years-professionals\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Our SIDS and Safer Sleep training for Early Years Professionals<\/a> was created specifically to help nursery practitioners, childminders, foster carers and anyone responsible for placing babies to sleep feel confident in doing so.<\/li>\n<li>Create a safer sleep display:\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lullabytrust.org.uk\/professionals-hub\/professionals-resources\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Download and print some of our key safer sleep resources<\/a> or order hard copies from\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lullabytrust.org.uk\/shop\/resources\/baby-safety-resources\/\" rel=\"noopener\">our shop\u202f<\/a>to display in your community or workplace.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19466\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2026\/03\/safer-sleep-week-300x273.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2026\/03\/safer-sleep-week-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2026\/03\/safer-sleep-week.png 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safer Sleep Week 2026 will run from 9 &#8211; 15 March. This is our national awareness campaign targeting anyone looking after a young baby. We raise awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and the simple advice that reduces the risk of it occurring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 09:08:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19467,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19465\/revisions\/19467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}